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so bob dole. but when bob dole came out of the military, cgenuine america. that's. and that tells me a lot about the character and the courage and the commitment of the man who will be the next president of the united states, who led the fight to balance the first budget in a generation, who fought the clinton■ increase? who's restored welfare reform to the states? the next president. ladies and gentlemen, senator bob dole and his wife, elizabeth dole. i. had. thank you. thank very much. i oh, i'm very honored to be at the pancreatic that i'm in. i want to thank. all■u right i know. i'm so. thank you. oh, oh, thank you. but let me first thank brad and great to be in new hampshire any time. and it's going to be a lot better when we win on tuesday. that's going to be the best lesson. of our country has reached a defining as i've said many times. and a new america is within our reach. and it's going to happen here. it's going start here. it's going to happen on tuesday. and i want to thank everybody in this audience. i know there are people from new hampshire and p
so bob dole. but when bob dole came out of the military, cgenuine america. that's. and that tells me a lot about the character and the courage and the commitment of the man who will be the next president of the united states, who led the fight to balance the first budget in a generation, who fought the clinton■ increase? who's restored welfare reform to the states? the next president. ladies and gentlemen, senator bob dole and his wife, elizabeth dole. i. had. thank you. thank very much. i...
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ii veterans who has spent the last 50 years of his life building america and a better world, senator bob dole. fifty-one years ago, during a fierce fight in italy second lieutenant bob dole went to the aid of a fallen comrade when a shell struck him down in their to bear the burden of that terrible injury from that day forward his recuperation was long and uncertain he turned adversity to advantage and pain to embody the model of the state that he loved went on to serve so well. to the stars through difficulties. citizen and soldier and legislature. he understands american people their struggles and triumphs in their dreams. those taking from the county attorney to senate majority leader and a longest-serving leader of his party in history he never forgot his roots he stood up for what he believes champion the interest of states hard-working farmers helping the disabled leading the american disabilities act playing a key role in the national commission on social security reform and always , always supporting the leadership of our country first throughout the long twilight struggle of the
ii veterans who has spent the last 50 years of his life building america and a better world, senator bob dole. fifty-one years ago, during a fierce fight in italy second lieutenant bob dole went to the aid of a fallen comrade when a shell struck him down in their to bear the burden of that terrible injury from that day forward his recuperation was long and uncertain he turned adversity to advantage and pain to embody the model of the state that he loved went on to serve so well. to the stars...
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bob helped establish the washington-based think tank, the center for american progress. and he has served as communications and political adviser to party leaders in leading governments, government officials in both the united states and europe. since 1987 when he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, mr. boorstin has been an outspoken activist and advocate on behalf of people with mental health conditions. now, our very special keynote speaker, george stephanopoulos, is the chief washington correspondent for abc news, an anchor or abc's sunday morning political affairs program, this week with george stephanopoulos. and i was actually given permission by klein who is not -- colleen who has not allowed david or me to get off script even once, but she said it's okay, you can talk about it, because our kids know that on sunday morning in columbia this week comes on from 10:30 to 11:30. and they have to be in the hospital before they call during that hour. [laughter] and with just friends and other family, we just ignore it if the phone rings, and most people know us well eno
bob helped establish the washington-based think tank, the center for american progress. and he has served as communications and political adviser to party leaders in leading governments, government officials in both the united states and europe. since 1987 when he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder, mr. boorstin has been an outspoken activist and advocate on behalf of people with mental health conditions. now, our very special keynote speaker, george stephanopoulos, is the chief washington...
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allow me one example of bob dole's comedic talent. in january of 1997 just after president clinton had defeated bob and won his reelection, the president graciously bestowed on bob the presidential medal of freedom. there they were in mid january, just three days before the day bob had spent months hoping he'd be inaugurated, but president clinton would be reinaugurated instead. it was a gracious gesture and a warm event all around. the time comes for bob's remarks. walks up to the podium, looks around, and he begins, i, robert j. dole, the crowd is cracking up, do solemnly swear and then a theatrical pause. oh, sorry, wrong speech. once the laughs began to die down there became the self-deprecating punchline, i thought i'd be here this historic week receiving something from the president, i thought it would be the front door key. the thing is, madam president, there was no contradiction in all of it, no paradox, bob's life and career were very, very consistent. the virtues and the values that led bob dole to raise his right hand, enl
allow me one example of bob dole's comedic talent. in january of 1997 just after president clinton had defeated bob and won his reelection, the president graciously bestowed on bob the presidential medal of freedom. there they were in mid january, just three days before the day bob had spent months hoping he'd be inaugurated, but president clinton would be reinaugurated instead. it was a gracious gesture and a warm event all around. the time comes for bob's remarks. walks up to the podium,...
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. >> to clear up a lot of these questions, bob mueller. his investigation captured the attention and imagination across the ideological spectrum for different reasons. people who thought it couldn't answer what russia's role was in 2016 didn't matter what else had happened and wanted to know the extent of the trump campaign's coordination with or aware of the russian hack and people who watched in real-time donald trump's efforts to construct the investigation into the package's involvement. do you think mueller answer those questions to the public satisfaction? >> yes and no. using really talented people he ran to ground, the nature and extent of the russian attack. in that report, any possible doubt, the russian hoax, what thoughtful person think there is a hoax around the russian attack? >> host: i wouldn't think them thoughtful the donald trump and his 63 million followers got enough of the muddy picture from mueller and this is my bias, this is a rare example of a government official a leader who understood the importance of clear com
. >> to clear up a lot of these questions, bob mueller. his investigation captured the attention and imagination across the ideological spectrum for different reasons. people who thought it couldn't answer what russia's role was in 2016 didn't matter what else had happened and wanted to know the extent of the trump campaign's coordination with or aware of the russian hack and people who watched in real-time donald trump's efforts to construct the investigation into the package's...
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bob: ♪ director, is mike murphy. the republican political consultant with whom i waged many campaigns but on opposite sides. we managed to maintain a friendship throw through that. we have speakers on campus is varied as jeff who you just gave interview two. and stephanie cutter, nancy pelosi, i guess the rabbi's words were not heard. [laughter]. nancy pelosi, and mark short, with the chief of staff to the present vice president of the united states but i had the warmer president of the national rifle association and we had a perfectly civil conversation. if i can use the word perfect. i do not agree with him. a lot of the students did not agree with him but nobody said he had no right to speak. and i utterly oppose, same people had no right to be . alan: who had all these people, people trying to get donald trump elected. did you ever call them despicable. when he said it was despicable for me to represent the president of the united states pretty come back why do you draw employees be tween calling me despicable be
bob: ♪ director, is mike murphy. the republican political consultant with whom i waged many campaigns but on opposite sides. we managed to maintain a friendship throw through that. we have speakers on campus is varied as jeff who you just gave interview two. and stephanie cutter, nancy pelosi, i guess the rabbi's words were not heard. [laughter]. nancy pelosi, and mark short, with the chief of staff to the present vice president of the united states but i had the warmer president of the...
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. >> booktv attend a publication party for bob beckel, author of "i should be dead: my life surviving politics, tv, and addiction," a memoir of his life in politics and his struggle with addiction, he mingled with guests and gave brief remarks on the boat. the party was held at a home of syndicated columnist cal thomas, bob beckel's longtime friend and celebrity. >> nice to meet you. >> good idea. the weird thing was amazon, number one on medical. on medical. memoirs are not medical. but those things, i noticed -- it is good but before the holidays everybody goes now. they're must contend thousand books this past week. did you see how many books came out last week? it is amazing, absolutely amazing. >> i heard a story, thomas jefferson's lifetime you could read all the books being published at that time, now there are 10,000 today. is that true? >> the rest of body. >> amazon carries 1.3 million titles so wednesday ranked, if you were number one, if you say within 2,000 you are doing really well. and i noticed, who is idiot right-wing radio talk show hosts? northwestern seattle. is th
. >> booktv attend a publication party for bob beckel, author of "i should be dead: my life surviving politics, tv, and addiction," a memoir of his life in politics and his struggle with addiction, he mingled with guests and gave brief remarks on the boat. the party was held at a home of syndicated columnist cal thomas, bob beckel's longtime friend and celebrity. >> nice to meet you. >> good idea. the weird thing was amazon, number one on medical. on medical. memoirs...
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i arrived in bob this office and this will foreshadow bob mueller and was appointed by the attorney general as it special counsel. had a different title. titles have switched, but he was an appointee of the attorney general janet reno and so i'm sitting in his office and i knew bob, good lawyer. i had actually worked with him and talked about even practicing together. bob said, i described this in the book that we will talk about candy, move your family to little rock. you are going to be a long time. [laughter] he had found more than a failed land deal in arkansas. >> could you take us into your operational and it? how big is your team? who was working there, lawyers, fbi agents, who were some of the key actors on your team? >> that team expanded or contracted depending on the circumstances. we assigned lawyers to specific matters, the death of vincent foster junior for instance, the fraudulent billing of hubbell, a game from the past but who is associate attorney general of the united states and his law partner at the rose law firm. they entered a guilty plea for defrauding clients, law f
i arrived in bob this office and this will foreshadow bob mueller and was appointed by the attorney general as it special counsel. had a different title. titles have switched, but he was an appointee of the attorney general janet reno and so i'm sitting in his office and i knew bob, good lawyer. i had actually worked with him and talked about even practicing together. bob said, i described this in the book that we will talk about candy, move your family to little rock. you are going to be a...
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come on up bob. [applause]. >> i was not going to say anything. i just came to visit. [laughter] but i have to tell you something, the rallies that i have back home are not quite like this. it's pretty cool. it's unbelievable, isn't it? [applause]. i had a remarkable day today. pretty remarkable day. it says a lot about a person to meet their family, spent time with their kids if you will, he veronica and eric and their son-in-law. and to be around people that have worked in the trump organization for 25 and 30 years to see the respect for the person they have with a work with, the father and father-in-law that they have, to see how he treats the people around him, so many times in this campaign people become caricatures of what the media makes them and all too often after a race is over people realize never really knew the person. somebody once told me it is not you know in life, it is how you know them. i had the incredible which today to spend time with this man, to spend time with his family, and to spend time with those who know him so well. i figured out the reas
come on up bob. [applause]. >> i was not going to say anything. i just came to visit. [laughter] but i have to tell you something, the rallies that i have back home are not quite like this. it's pretty cool. it's unbelievable, isn't it? [applause]. i had a remarkable day today. pretty remarkable day. it says a lot about a person to meet their family, spent time with their kids if you will, he veronica and eric and their son-in-law. and to be around people that have worked in the trump...
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bob rather than -- altmeyer's not a difficult name, but dr. bob will get you right there also, but you will get to his book. he lays an awful lot of the questions you raised out in that book. and i think that that's the fastest way to get you some simple answers to a complex question. >> host: this photograph during the senate watergate hearings. your wife, maureen, seated almost directly behind you. how did that come about? >> guest: well, she wasn't sure she wanted to go or not and attend them. my lawyer said, by all means. lawyer said by all means. i am curious to know what is going on and i can follow the proceedings that way but what she didn't know was the camera spend some of much time on her. the camera man found a pretty ince and she doesn't take a bad picture. she was there and it was nice having her. >> she wrote her own book about watergate. hat did she learn from her research on the book? >> probably how hard it was on wa her, a difficult thing. she was not somebody who wanted to be a public person. we had been dated for a while.
bob rather than -- altmeyer's not a difficult name, but dr. bob will get you right there also, but you will get to his book. he lays an awful lot of the questions you raised out in that book. and i think that that's the fastest way to get you some simple answers to a complex question. >> host: this photograph during the senate watergate hearings. your wife, maureen, seated almost directly behind you. how did that come about? >> guest: well, she wasn't sure she wanted to go or not...
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in clinton begin and bob dole and al gore. could those stories that our ridiculous i have tried to build something substantive a insubstantial. that is the way i have always approached that. one of my mentors was david halberstam who once used to talk about that. i liked his books but they were more illuminating than others. >> along with the java. but sports is one of the key ways to read about the sociological issues. i have always been interested in race. >> and then moving to p.r.. >> why is it important? >> it is by a bursting yourself into the geography of a place. but that is really where he was shaped. he went to florida university across the river to new jersey and the assistant coach at west point said for the the york giants. he was 45 years old before he got to green bay. but then those magical believe years. in with those two bishops that football aspect that mythologies of competition. but that simple aspect of the book new year's eve, 1967 and. with the packers against the cowboys. >> i had to into our tueber in
in clinton begin and bob dole and al gore. could those stories that our ridiculous i have tried to build something substantive a insubstantial. that is the way i have always approached that. one of my mentors was david halberstam who once used to talk about that. i liked his books but they were more illuminating than others. >> along with the java. but sports is one of the key ways to read about the sociological issues. i have always been interested in race. >> and then moving to...
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why does the president think that was largely bob corker's fault? >> senator corker worked with nancy pelosi and the obama administration to save the way for that legislation and basically rolled out the red carpet for the i ran deal. those are. factual. >> thanks sara sarah. the last few months the president has criticized a number of senior republicans sometimes in very personal terms terms. senator murkowski senator leader mcconnell and most recently senator bob corker. what do you say to critics who say that the president is alienating himself from republicans that he will need to move this less insulation forward? >> i don't think he is alienated anyone that i think alien -- congress is alienated themselves by not getting the job done that the people of this country lifted them to do. they campaigned on repealing and replacing obamacare and they haven't done it but i campaigned on tax reform. hopefully we see that happen. we are certainly committed to that and we think we'll get there but time and time again congress is made from assistant fail
why does the president think that was largely bob corker's fault? >> senator corker worked with nancy pelosi and the obama administration to save the way for that legislation and basically rolled out the red carpet for the i ran deal. those are. factual. >> thanks sara sarah. the last few months the president has criticized a number of senior republicans sometimes in very personal terms terms. senator murkowski senator leader mcconnell and most recently senator bob corker. what do...
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thought he was a really smart businessman. >> guest: bob comes into this. >> host: bob comes into this company on a lifeline from u.s. government and it's incredibly controversial and is getting play for the financial crisis. you you could even argue a disproportionate share. talk about what he encountered in terms of what was going on with the employees when he got there? and the widespread hatred towards aig employees. >> guest: mostly because of what was happening in one small unit that created all of the chaos. aig financial which was in connecticut and london this was the home of the ceos in the all that horrible stuff. those people for the focus of a tremendous amount of american anger, particularly because of this issue around the bonuses that they were contractually entitled to. but it played out in the press so -- there's it sorta became a symbol of everything that was wrong. it was not that much money. considering the billions of people the government had now invested in aig, it was something around 60 million, but was a focal point and i got to the point where organized grou
thought he was a really smart businessman. >> guest: bob comes into this. >> host: bob comes into this company on a lifeline from u.s. government and it's incredibly controversial and is getting play for the financial crisis. you you could even argue a disproportionate share. talk about what he encountered in terms of what was going on with the employees when he got there? and the widespread hatred towards aig employees. >> guest: mostly because of what was happening in one...
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the speech. -- zero bob months speech. >> get it out there put out it goes a lot of places. >> look at that. >> which showed you like better on your show on fox and why? might that would come from my executive producer would it? by the way where were you this week? see how that works? he comes in on vacation. this is where the brand wake up america was born and then to close out with a nice bunch. and to put that monologue up front with those ideas for the show. and then that and said being 22 minutes of showtime. and that is before you move on to the rest of your day so if there is a recent that most of them are pushing back on the liberal left. and just grew and grew. people had shag wake up america all over the place. ended the since. have been beating him to change the name for years wake up america. pc is on vacation this week. [laughter] >> if the republican party is such a conservative, i must be far right? i think the problem is getting the republican party over to separate movement. so many have been tossed, so i think the establishment establishment, there is the word, the
the speech. -- zero bob months speech. >> get it out there put out it goes a lot of places. >> look at that. >> which showed you like better on your show on fox and why? might that would come from my executive producer would it? by the way where were you this week? see how that works? he comes in on vacation. this is where the brand wake up america was born and then to close out with a nice bunch. and to put that monologue up front with those ideas for the show. and then that...
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we have a new undersecretary who is about to take office as well as bob einhorn has extensive experience working in india so we look for to working with their indian counterparts on these issues. what was your second question? >> the convention on supplementary compensation. >> on that, it is a matter now of most of the workers i understand in india is done and it is a matter of getting parliamentary ratification approval so i think we are most of the way there. but i will leave the details of that to our indian friends to describe. >> i probably haunt the microphone for the last question so thank you for your time and generosities and we will see you again soon. can i thank you also very much. [applause] >> let me say a word of thank-you to the scholar francis conference so ably and to all of our other guests who are with us today. our evidence is now closed, thank you very much [inaudible
we have a new undersecretary who is about to take office as well as bob einhorn has extensive experience working in india so we look for to working with their indian counterparts on these issues. what was your second question? >> the convention on supplementary compensation. >> on that, it is a matter now of most of the workers i understand in india is done and it is a matter of getting parliamentary ratification approval so i think we are most of the way there. but i will leave the...
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so i went in to see bob haldeman. i said, i had stopped in new york because i'd had some inquiry, had a couple very nice job offers that intrigued me,@ú open. and after it's over, you're even going to get better offers. didn't mention i might be making license plates somewhere, but he really, in essence, said you can't leave. you're going to hurt yourself if you do. i suspect years later he wished he'd let me go. but with i, it was that two things, the fact i had told the senator i was not going to spend a long time in government, and the fact that i had not liked the mood and change and the nature. this is, you know, right after i had flown out in july to turn off the brookings break-in. jack caufield shows up in my office one day, and he says he's been ordered by kohlson to break in and fire bomb the brookings institute. i said, jack, i said, that's insane. i said, don't do anything. and i flew to san clemente, got ehrlichman to turn it off and came back. croag comes back and says, well, john, there are a lot of pe
so i went in to see bob haldeman. i said, i had stopped in new york because i'd had some inquiry, had a couple very nice job offers that intrigued me,@ú open. and after it's over, you're even going to get better offers. didn't mention i might be making license plates somewhere, but he really, in essence, said you can't leave. you're going to hurt yourself if you do. i suspect years later he wished he'd let me go. but with i, it was that two things, the fact i had told the senator i was not...
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i'm worried about bob. i figure oh my god, bob is not in the bomb shelter so i go looking for him and i found him . on the roof of the building with a live camera narrating what's happening as the warheads are driving around him . and it just me. i guess like a scud missile. just hit me and i said to myself that is what a war correspondent does. and i had seen my last bomb shelter and you know, it was just that moment. this is exactly right what edward r murrow did, standing on top of the roof of the bbc recording the blitz as the nazi bombers came over london . your bob simon doing exactly the same thing. that is what a war correspondent does. is it hazardous? of course. many of our colleagues, friends of ours, both of them and savard have been killed, but when america goes to war, all of america has to go. and the way that all of america goes to war is through independent reporting by the war correspondent on the battlefield. indispensable, absolutely indispensable to a democracy at war. and so the risks
i'm worried about bob. i figure oh my god, bob is not in the bomb shelter so i go looking for him and i found him . on the roof of the building with a live camera narrating what's happening as the warheads are driving around him . and it just me. i guess like a scud missile. just hit me and i said to myself that is what a war correspondent does. and i had seen my last bomb shelter and you know, it was just that moment. this is exactly right what edward r murrow did, standing on top of the roof...
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bob ho to des was a lawyer, the head of -- [inaudible] in new york. he called me one day and said would you have lunch with some of the directors of loral? i'm a director, and we're not doing well. so i got some standard & poor's sheets and studied them for about 20 minutes, and when i met with them, i said you're in a lot of businesses you know nothing about. you ought to get rid of those businesses. you're in one business, you know something about, you should stay in that business. i said i don't want to leave what i'm doing to go to loral. that's what happened. because i saw in the military business an opportunity to work together with competitors and customers and build a society within the atmosphere of the business that had a morality to it, that understood that building was important, that sharing the wealth was important. everybody at loral got rich, and it was because we had set up a stock option program, one of the largest at the new york stock exchange where everybody participated. and everybody felt that they were part of the success. and
bob ho to des was a lawyer, the head of -- [inaudible] in new york. he called me one day and said would you have lunch with some of the directors of loral? i'm a director, and we're not doing well. so i got some standard & poor's sheets and studied them for about 20 minutes, and when i met with them, i said you're in a lot of businesses you know nothing about. you ought to get rid of those businesses. you're in one business, you know something about, you should stay in that business. i said...
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also bob dole had trouble with the surrogate role. the spouse of a woman running we describe him as a denis thatcher quiet in the background not the making in the gaffes to the press. we have not seen that yet. >> the role has not been defined. they don't know the role. >> hillary clinton and elizabeth dole their staffers are prominent politicos. they want to get in there. >> very interesting. we talk at the outset about nine different women. i actually one to three view to develop time to have a direct relationship. one of them is the most prominent. each of you took the lead. so if they would start then the other two could jump 10. >> when they know with like to mention about elizabeth dole is her prepared this. i like a speaker who is prepared and she is known to prepare extremely well. i interviewed her twice and bob dole he was a little bit funny. i said tell me senator how you prepare for your speeches. i give them once. that is why i am not in the good. but in contrast elisabeth i can hear her voice coming out of the kitchen sh
also bob dole had trouble with the surrogate role. the spouse of a woman running we describe him as a denis thatcher quiet in the background not the making in the gaffes to the press. we have not seen that yet. >> the role has not been defined. they don't know the role. >> hillary clinton and elizabeth dole their staffers are prominent politicos. they want to get in there. >> very interesting. we talk at the outset about nine different women. i actually one to three view to...
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. >> i learned from bob mostly by observing. he wasn't the type to be patient on - - teacher and mentor but his work was titanic. i'll tell you a quick anecdote to aerate in the vertebrate we were in 1981 with the bureau in saudi arabia. this was in the run up to the goal for and then to have a bureau set up the the airway raid warden willis but this is the first time this is happened you are the young correspondent i probably haven't been there more than a year ago the air raid siren goes off the warden comes in and we all go down the basement. now i'm in the bomb shelter looking around and i don't see bob burke i figure he's not in the bomb shelter so i leave and go looking for him. he is on the roof of the building. >> and it just the compared to what i wore correspondent does and i had seen my last bomb shelter. it was just that moment that's what edward r murrow did of the bbc recording the blitz as the nazi bombers came over london here is simon doing exactly colleagues or friends have made when america goes to our all of
. >> i learned from bob mostly by observing. he wasn't the type to be patient on - - teacher and mentor but his work was titanic. i'll tell you a quick anecdote to aerate in the vertebrate we were in 1981 with the bureau in saudi arabia. this was in the run up to the goal for and then to have a bureau set up the the airway raid warden willis but this is the first time this is happened you are the young correspondent i probably haven't been there more than a year ago the air raid siren...
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so i went in to see bob haldeman. i said, i had stopped in new york because i'd had some inquiry, had a couple very nice job offers that intrigued me, one was to become a short-term assistant or deputy general counsel and then be boosted up to general counsel of a shipping, worldwide shipping line, and the other was a wall street job that, as an investment banker that intrigued me very much. both out of politics, something i'd wanted to do, something different. and i explained that to haldeman, and he said, john, you can't leave. you owe it to us to stay. you leave, you'll burn your bridge with us. you need to keep that bridge open. and after it's over, you're even going to get better offers. didn't mention i might be making license plates somewhere, but he really, in essence, said you can't leave. you're going to hurt yourself if you do. i suspect years later he wished he'd let me go. but with i, it was that two things, the fact i had told the senator i was not going to spend a long time in government, and the fact t
so i went in to see bob haldeman. i said, i had stopped in new york because i'd had some inquiry, had a couple very nice job offers that intrigued me, one was to become a short-term assistant or deputy general counsel and then be boosted up to general counsel of a shipping, worldwide shipping line, and the other was a wall street job that, as an investment banker that intrigued me very much. both out of politics, something i'd wanted to do, something different. and i explained that to haldeman,...
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-- stretches where is bob were doing -- bob woodward? >> host: what is the most important thing going on in the world that you worry about, that you think that that you think we should take more into to? i'm pretty concerned about the kim regime. pretty concerned about the pace of their missile technology development. along with the allies have operations ongoing right now in raqqa, in mosul. those need to be successful. there's a challenge with kurds and the turks right now that is getting harder, not easier to solve. so i worry about making sure that ayes our campaign against isis succeeds. manchester, another reminder that has to succeed. those of the two most current concerns i have. what's going on in syria, and iraq and in north korea. >> host: what's most interesting to you the most interesting problem intech? as a look at to the consequences of automation robotics? >> guest: it's the biggest bob, the biggest opportunity? >> host i think the accepted his healthcare. what i worry about is the pace of health inflation. health inflat
-- stretches where is bob were doing -- bob woodward? >> host: what is the most important thing going on in the world that you worry about, that you think that that you think we should take more into to? i'm pretty concerned about the kim regime. pretty concerned about the pace of their missile technology development. along with the allies have operations ongoing right now in raqqa, in mosul. those need to be successful. there's a challenge with kurds and the turks right now that is...
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i do want to correct one thing, bob, i was not there in the republican primary. i was second. that has been a story that is often told. i worked really hard to be second. not at it means a darn thing because when you come in second place, there is no price. arthur, one of the realities of politics. i think all of you have a copy of the book, "a simple government: twelve things we really need from washington" i hope they'll have a chance to read it. i'm sure he'll stay up and read all 220 pages of it. i hope you will give a cursory review of it. in many ways, i'm been asked the question, not once, not 10 times, but 100 times, are you going to run for the president? no matter how many different ways they say it, there's a hundred different ways people say it. i'll once again try to say to you that it's very much an option i'm considering. and i am seriously and genuinely contemplating it. but i am also wanting to make sure people understand where i stand, what i believe in what i think america's priorities that to be. part of the reason for writing the book is to let people have
i do want to correct one thing, bob, i was not there in the republican primary. i was second. that has been a story that is often told. i worked really hard to be second. not at it means a darn thing because when you come in second place, there is no price. arthur, one of the realities of politics. i think all of you have a copy of the book, "a simple government: twelve things we really need from washington" i hope they'll have a chance to read it. i'm sure he'll stay up and read all...
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as bob woodward declared connie don't have to do anything else, just read mike allen. they will be in what promises to be a lively conversation, roughly 40 minutes after which we invite you to join in with questions. ladies and gentlemen, please help me welcome leon panetta and mike allen. [applause] >> a thank you very much. appreciate it very much good will come to you in lifestream land and all of you who are here. somebody pointed out to me this is more expensive than hbo on demand, so we will try to make that worthwhile. mr. secretary, before we start here, do you want to say hello? [laughter] >> i would love to say hello to my rabbi, jeremy pasha was the chief of staff and his lovely wife, robyn. [applause] and jeremy's parents are here as well and i thank you for coming. we want to thank politics & prose and six van eyck for this amazing setting. welcome to all of you in the balcony as well. we kick off, mr. secretary you've been off for a week now talking about were the fights. another week to go to head to california. earlier today did you get tougher question
as bob woodward declared connie don't have to do anything else, just read mike allen. they will be in what promises to be a lively conversation, roughly 40 minutes after which we invite you to join in with questions. ladies and gentlemen, please help me welcome leon panetta and mike allen. [applause] >> a thank you very much. appreciate it very much good will come to you in lifestream land and all of you who are here. somebody pointed out to me this is more expensive than hbo on demand,...
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there are some clear between your work and bad of bob mueller that recently concluded. but also some stark differences in terms of mandate and reporting responsibilities you wrote a piece in the atlantic lastnt month so what are the key differences? >> one is the method of appointment. after the 21 year experiment with the independent counsel arena, congress sought not to reauthorize and i applauded that. and then to object is also the constitutional invasion of the powers of the president that it's okay to fire archibald cox know it wasn't okay or obstruction of justice but look at what happened the acting attorney general promptly within 11 days nominated leon jaworski he carried on the investigation and the rest is history. so a little more study of history as a great teacher that ulysses s grant fired a special counsel of his time but the investigation went on and harry truman fired the attorney general who fired the special prosecutor in the early fiftiesti but the investigation wentti on the investigation will go on so the unintended consequences to restore the au
there are some clear between your work and bad of bob mueller that recently concluded. but also some stark differences in terms of mandate and reporting responsibilities you wrote a piece in the atlantic lastnt month so what are the key differences? >> one is the method of appointment. after the 21 year experiment with the independent counsel arena, congress sought not to reauthorize and i applauded that. and then to object is also the constitutional invasion of the powers of the...
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so, i would respectfully disagree with bob. they are actually very hardworking, mid career professionals. they're not 22 year olds. many of them have come from the leadership offices of capitol hill or from governor's offices. and if you listen to, for example, his speech to the u.n., he had a great defense of democratic capitalism in it. he said the problem with venezuela is not that socialism was implemented incorrectly, but that it was implemented 100% correctly and that's why there's a disaster in venezuela. however, in the same speech, i don't think the speech writers did this, put in the reference to rocketman and he rolled it out there and the press went for the shiny object just as he thought they would and nobody covered the defense of democratic capitalism. his values summit speech last week, which was on -- i i had to sit live and listen to it with the canadians and immediately comment on it, had a great discussion on religious liberty and why that's important in this country. and so, his speeches are actually advanc
so, i would respectfully disagree with bob. they are actually very hardworking, mid career professionals. they're not 22 year olds. many of them have come from the leadership offices of capitol hill or from governor's offices. and if you listen to, for example, his speech to the u.n., he had a great defense of democratic capitalism in it. he said the problem with venezuela is not that socialism was implemented incorrectly, but that it was implemented 100% correctly and that's why there's a...
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bob: yes. people analyzing the 2016 election, have attributed much of donald trump's victory to racism. and i think that is simplifies far too much. yes there was obviously an element of racism but you have to ask yourself, why. we've had racism in american politics for her since before the founding of the republic. racism and misogyny all play a very large part in 2016 election because people were ready to be or use their anger, tammy channeled by demagogue called donald trump. towards scapegoats. it would be anger. it was a sense of frustration that was really compelling force in 2016. michael: serves a political question that arose in 2015 but is at very much the moment now. given the anger and frustration on the right and on the left. at the system being rigged in the way just being stagnant. a sense of cultural exclusion. and powerless this group what you think that an authoritarian populist as you called donald trump from the right, less able to factor that angry resentment more effective
bob: yes. people analyzing the 2016 election, have attributed much of donald trump's victory to racism. and i think that is simplifies far too much. yes there was obviously an element of racism but you have to ask yourself, why. we've had racism in american politics for her since before the founding of the republic. racism and misogyny all play a very large part in 2016 election because people were ready to be or use their anger, tammy channeled by demagogue called donald trump. towards...
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go ahead, sir. >> yeah, hi, bob. i want to ask you something that's alluding to the off-the-line comment you said on al gore. you know that you've been studying the white house 40 years, and you know people all have their own perspective, they all want to be saying things. and if you're the president, you have to listen to all these people. over your 40 years, how did the presidents react, and which ones really did a good job listening and making decisions? >> yeah, that's a great question. i mean, in journalism the great art, and it's hard, is to really listen. and the key to getting people to talk is to take them as serious a. [applause] atake themselves. -- seriously as they take themselves. that's one comment feature. president, most people in government, they take themselves seriously. you find increasingly with all the presidents i've tried to understand that the more time they get in office, the more they like to talk and the less they like to listen. and that's a problem. and i was reading the george cannon b
go ahead, sir. >> yeah, hi, bob. i want to ask you something that's alluding to the off-the-line comment you said on al gore. you know that you've been studying the white house 40 years, and you know people all have their own perspective, they all want to be saying things. and if you're the president, you have to listen to all these people. over your 40 years, how did the presidents react, and which ones really did a good job listening and making decisions? >> yeah, that's a great...
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we can support people like bob who can get the job done. [applause] i think you're comments are a prime illustration of the truth that we are all on the comeback trail and it's good to agree if wealthy people and people who are in authority and power if they have the capacity don't understand they are on the comeback trail they are overcoming things. it's not just the folks who are here that we've all got stories like glenn and we have to be in touch with that to understand what these folks are doing. why don't you with a phd and pulitzer prize winners, why don't you take one last shot at maybe -- >> it's at the traffic the money that will come from people like you is much better than the money to get filtered through government and i think it is better if it is done on the state level and not on the federal level but better if it isn't done at all. >> one of the things we see in either direction is a country more divided than we are used to being and the distances. there is nothing more there's nothing more important than bridges of the ki
we can support people like bob who can get the job done. [applause] i think you're comments are a prime illustration of the truth that we are all on the comeback trail and it's good to agree if wealthy people and people who are in authority and power if they have the capacity don't understand they are on the comeback trail they are overcoming things. it's not just the folks who are here that we've all got stories like glenn and we have to be in touch with that to understand what these folks are...
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the other person, a man i did not know at all well, was bob reischau, who waat the time this battle was going on the director of the congressional dcet office, a classic, professional civil servant. and reischauer, because the cbo scoring s so critical to what was going to happen to the health-care proposals from all camps, reischauer was just beat about the head and shoulders constantly by politicians to on his estimates of the cost of their programs, the workability of their programs. and we tell the story the bookbout a meeting that he had after one particularly tough sessn withenator ted kennedy, who called him on the phone and really chewed him out for what he thought -- kennedy thought reischauer was going to do to damage the prospects of the clinton plan being aepted. and reisauer meets with the aders, the other top professionals in the congressional budget office, and said, "look, i want you to know that if we include this chter that raises ts of questions about the thing, it may be polically impossible fors to continue. congress may raliate against this non-partisan budget offi
the other person, a man i did not know at all well, was bob reischau, who waat the time this battle was going on the director of the congressional dcet office, a classic, professional civil servant. and reischauer, because the cbo scoring s so critical to what was going to happen to the health-care proposals from all camps, reischauer was just beat about the head and shoulders constantly by politicians to on his estimates of the cost of their programs, the workability of their programs. and we...
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but my question for you is, bob, you mentioned that speech writing is problem solving. or solving a puzzle. how in the voice of a former president when you're supposed to show restraint and respect for the person occupying the office do you respond in this age of trump? do you have any advice for anyone who, for a former president, someone maybe in the public sector who has to respond to these issues and has to show restraint but also respond thoughtfully? thank you. >> well, i think that, first off, i'll just say what i said before. this is not normal. this is -- and it's not sustainable. you, as far as -- i look at the policy prescriptions for the problems we have today, and the impact on the rural people of north florida that i care so much about, and it's going to make things far worse. dismantling health care. i mean, the rural health care system is on its last legs right now. to get -- we have, the "wall street journal" did an article about maternity, maternal deserts. and that's most of rural america. there are no ob/gyns within, you know, 50, 100 miles of a lot
but my question for you is, bob, you mentioned that speech writing is problem solving. or solving a puzzle. how in the voice of a former president when you're supposed to show restraint and respect for the person occupying the office do you respond in this age of trump? do you have any advice for anyone who, for a former president, someone maybe in the public sector who has to respond to these issues and has to show restraint but also respond thoughtfully? thank you. >> well, i think...
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is bob woodward mark i bob. take us beyond washington, the beltway, the capital. what is the most important thing going on in the world that you worry about that we should pay more attention to? >> right now i'm concerned about northkorea. i'm concerned about the kim regime , i'm current concerned about the case of their missile technology development. i think we along with our allies have operations in raqqa and mosul. the challenge with the kurds that is getting harder, not easier to solve. so i worry about making sure that our campaign against isis succeeds. manchester is just another reminder that has to succeed and so those are the things, the two most current concerns i have, what's going on in syria, interact and in north korea. >> what's the most concerning problems you with tax? the most interesting problem as we look ahead to the consequences of. >> the biggest problem or the biggest opportunity? i think the biggest opportunity is healthcare. what i worry about is the pace of health inflation. health i
is bob woodward mark i bob. take us beyond washington, the beltway, the capital. what is the most important thing going on in the world that you worry about that we should pay more attention to? >> right now i'm concerned about northkorea. i'm concerned about the kim regime , i'm current concerned about the case of their missile technology development. i think we along with our allies have operations in raqqa and mosul. the challenge with the kurds that is getting harder, not easier to...
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. >> you are backstage chatted bob woodward and interviewed by bob many times over the years. >> that's very entertaining. he gets more out of you then you get out of him i'm sure, but i have learned a lot from him. i have enjoyed his work for long time. there are not many people who can see around corners and in and out of things like bob kim is the internet a long time. >> in the -- [inaudible] so the question that bob woodward had, you became the 54th speaker of the house in october 2015. what is your greatest accomplishment? >> first of all, we were in disarray and reunified. i think that was important. since coming to office we had to figure out how to make divided government work with obama. we had to make sure we didn't have government shutdowns to make sure we get things done. that was important.de i like the way we ended the year with obama on cures for opiate, that was an issue everyone believed in. have been years in the making and it wasn't going to get done if we kicked it out. i like the way we ended on that. now, we have got contributed opposition party to a governing par
. >> you are backstage chatted bob woodward and interviewed by bob many times over the years. >> that's very entertaining. he gets more out of you then you get out of him i'm sure, but i have learned a lot from him. i have enjoyed his work for long time. there are not many people who can see around corners and in and out of things like bob kim is the internet a long time. >> in the -- [inaudible] so the question that bob woodward had, you became the 54th speaker of the house...
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it's all, for instance, the formats -- bob dole, remember the bob dole negotiations. he's a man who talked in verse and one liners and he never talked for more than two and a half minutes, so his negotiators were willing to give up anything in order for the answers to be never be more than two and a half minutes long. of course, against bill clinton, he could talk for two and a half hours on any given question, but in order to get that, clinton also wanted a town hall thing so they swapped -- the negotiators swapped. dole got what he wanted, short answers and in exchange for clinton's people getting what clintonmented which was a town -- clinton wanted which was a town hall debate for the first time, and everything about what the size of the holding rooms are, everything about it is negotiated. >> host: including the moderator. >> guest: absolutely, absolutely. >> host: which may be why they embedded with a single moderator because they couldn't agree on anybody other than you. >> guest: this is not false modesty, but it's just the truth. the couple times i ended up m
it's all, for instance, the formats -- bob dole, remember the bob dole negotiations. he's a man who talked in verse and one liners and he never talked for more than two and a half minutes, so his negotiators were willing to give up anything in order for the answers to be never be more than two and a half minutes long. of course, against bill clinton, he could talk for two and a half hours on any given question, but in order to get that, clinton also wanted a town hall thing so they swapped --...
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. >> guest: in terms of it being her war in the united states the president and including bob casey the defense secretary and joe biden were reluctant to get involved in libya. they didn't want to spend blood and treasure and didn't want to get involved in afghanistan and iraq. at the time some of them knew that there was a plan to go after bin laden and a strike potential in a sovereign nation. internationally the europeans wanted a no-fly zone. the americans thought that was ineffectual. you have to get the gold corporate in counsel and in the arab league which have different politics within them. you had to get them bought in. they bought into the no-fly zone and they got turned around into an actual strike rather than a fly zone to take out gadhafi. all of that was done on the ground in various capitals by hillary clinton and basically she came back to president of bob and said look the coalition is here for this if you are willing to deal with it. >> guest: she put together this coalition so she had her stamp on it. >> host: lafayette indiana, republican caller. >> caller: good mor
. >> guest: in terms of it being her war in the united states the president and including bob casey the defense secretary and joe biden were reluctant to get involved in libya. they didn't want to spend blood and treasure and didn't want to get involved in afghanistan and iraq. at the time some of them knew that there was a plan to go after bin laden and a strike potential in a sovereign nation. internationally the europeans wanted a no-fly zone. the americans thought that was...
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most recently senator bob corker. what do you say to critics who say that the president is alienating himself from republicans that he will need to move his legislation forward? >> i don't the use and need in one. i alienated themselves by not actually getting the job done that the people of this country elected them to do. they all promise and campaign on repealing and replacing obamacare. they haven't done that. they campaign a tax reform. probably we see that happen. we are committed didn't think we'll get there a time atomic and congress has made promises and failed to deliver. it was being alienated its people that a promising things and not delivering on them. >> one were on speech i'm going to skip around so i can get more people in. >> you talk last week about the plan on iran and we often know the present feelings. what a not clear on sicu connection. how is a certified iran nuclear deal lead to an opportunity to go ship on all of these other issues that you have with iran like exporting terrorism and cyber c
most recently senator bob corker. what do you say to critics who say that the president is alienating himself from republicans that he will need to move his legislation forward? >> i don't the use and need in one. i alienated themselves by not actually getting the job done that the people of this country elected them to do. they all promise and campaign on repealing and replacing obamacare. they haven't done that. they campaign a tax reform. probably we see that happen. we are committed...
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and bob gates was executive assistant, so in those days, bob, did you ever think that one day you would become one of the most famous secretaries of defense and have this career? did you ever think about that? when you were assistant. >> first of all, david we are probably close to the situation today that we've never jumped about that and then late 1970s. i joined cia in 1966, i was recruited out of the russian and east european institute university. and just to do my bit in the cold war and i never dreamed that i would end up being the director of the cia. at the very time the soviet union collapsed, so it was quite a trajectory and nothing i could've ever predicted. >> and for those who haven't followed bob's career, he was not only the head of the cia but he was also the secretary of defense under two presidents, president bush 43, president obama. and he was the chancellor of texas a&m university for number of years as well. so bob for people watching, younger people, and they say okay and want to have a career like bob gates what would be advised that you could give them? practice
and bob gates was executive assistant, so in those days, bob, did you ever think that one day you would become one of the most famous secretaries of defense and have this career? did you ever think about that? when you were assistant. >> first of all, david we are probably close to the situation today that we've never jumped about that and then late 1970s. i joined cia in 1966, i was recruited out of the russian and east european institute university. and just to do my bit in the cold war...
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to he has read for publications including "time" magazine "washington post" and "new york times" as bob woodward's declared you don't have to do anything else. a very lively a conversation when we will invite you to join with questions. please help me to welcome leon panetta and mike allen. [applause] faq very much welcome to all of you that our here's some of you pointed out thises ises more expensive than hbo we will make this worthwhile. so mr. secretary before we start anyone you want to say hello to? >> above to say hello to my rabbi. [laughter] my chief of staff. [applause] and jerry's parents are here as well. >> i want to thank politics & prose into all of you in the balcony but from the california -- cia the press secretary so what is left? >> i am waiting for the post position to open up. [laughter] i enjoy to be back home in the valley i have a grandchild there and it is nice to be whole working with a different set but with those life experiences they are enviable but not everyone agrees with each other. >> we were all kinds of bachelor's back here when we came back to washi
to he has read for publications including "time" magazine "washington post" and "new york times" as bob woodward's declared you don't have to do anything else. a very lively a conversation when we will invite you to join with questions. please help me to welcome leon panetta and mike allen. [applause] faq very much welcome to all of you that our here's some of you pointed out thises ises more expensive than hbo we will make this worthwhile. so mr. secretary before...
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bob, some traits, if you will. obviously, the first thing that comes to mind, i think, for most of us is a leader. man of character and integrity. a distinguished and dedicated public servant. humble. principled pragmatist. an innovative and motivator. and so now a few words about those few words. under director mueller he directed and implemented what is arguably the most significant change in the fbi's 105-year history. i think historians may debate what has been the most significant, but i would suggest that that is what has happened in the last 12 years. he is the most significant sea change for an organization such as the fbi. we all remember the mi5 debate, whether the fbi in a post-9/11 world could handle the traditional law enforcement responsibilities that it was known for and also collect intelligence that contributed to national security and share that intelligence. and so it's good that george tenet is here this morning, because it is because of george and his cooperation, collaboration, sending 20 repo
bob, some traits, if you will. obviously, the first thing that comes to mind, i think, for most of us is a leader. man of character and integrity. a distinguished and dedicated public servant. humble. principled pragmatist. an innovative and motivator. and so now a few words about those few words. under director mueller he directed and implemented what is arguably the most significant change in the fbi's 105-year history. i think historians may debate what has been the most significant, but i...
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[applause] >> thank you, bob. [applause] >> thank you, bob. so now let's go back to tom. bob called the port huron statement extremely naive and quoted christopher hitchens saying it was conservative. tell us what kind of response you have for this. [laughter] >> i will not be provoked. [laughter] the, just several points. we were 20 or 21 years old. [laughter] and everybody said that we were extremely naive. that's why we went to jail in the south, that's why we walked into police dogs, that's why we walked into guns. because we didn't want to settle for the world that our parents had left us. and a certain amount of five today is valuable at the beginning of any social movement up to and including how the current wisconsin movement started. but we don't have time for that. the, um, the naivete was also another way to look at naivete is idealism and curiosity. and it was a method -- i don't know whose method it was, bob moses, ella baker -- but the method was to talk to people about their problems and demonstrate your commitment by going to live in places of great terror
[applause] >> thank you, bob. [applause] >> thank you, bob. so now let's go back to tom. bob called the port huron statement extremely naive and quoted christopher hitchens saying it was conservative. tell us what kind of response you have for this. [laughter] >> i will not be provoked. [laughter] the, just several points. we were 20 or 21 years old. [laughter] and everybody said that we were extremely naive. that's why we went to jail in the south, that's why we walked into...
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was one of the reasons the independent counsel was created and why we have a special counsel now and bob mueller to assure the rule of law. >> the book again out last week contempt a memoir of the clinton investigation. ken starr with us for the next 50 minutes to talk about it this morning on "washington journal". douglas in alabama, independent, good morning. >> caller: how are you? >> doing well, go ahead. >> caller: yes, i tell you what, i'm very disappointed in her and her action that she took sending that information to the fbi. i felt like that was very wrong in her to do that, that she shouldn't have done that. she should have waited and checked and made sure everything was appropriate on this lady's part. and that's the way everybody does. they think the man is always wrong in every case because the woman always goes hollering, the sky's falling, the sky's falling. >> to be clear, you think dianne feinstein should have conducted a preinvestigation before forwarding on the information? >> i think she should have come before the people and then before going to the fbi and going th
was one of the reasons the independent counsel was created and why we have a special counsel now and bob mueller to assure the rule of law. >> the book again out last week contempt a memoir of the clinton investigation. ken starr with us for the next 50 minutes to talk about it this morning on "washington journal". douglas in alabama, independent, good morning. >> caller: how are you? >> doing well, go ahead. >> caller: yes, i tell you what, i'm very...
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but the senate does not just bob along on the currents of yef news sigh -- every news cycle. the house may have been content to scrap their own norms to hurt president trump, but that is not the senate. even with a process this constitutionally serious, even with tensions rising in the middle east, house democrats are treating impeachment like a political toy. like a political toy. treating their own effort to remove our commander in chief like some frivolous game. these bizarre stunts do not serve our constitution or our national security. they erode both. my democratic colleagues should not plow away american unity in some bizarre intra mural competition to see who dislikes the president more. this should not disdain our constitution by rushing through a purely partisan impeachment process and then toying around with it. governing is serious business. the american
but the senate does not just bob along on the currents of yef news sigh -- every news cycle. the house may have been content to scrap their own norms to hurt president trump, but that is not the senate. even with a process this constitutionally serious, even with tensions rising in the middle east, house democrats are treating impeachment like a political toy. like a political toy. treating their own effort to remove our commander in chief like some frivolous game. these bizarre stunts do not...
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>> bob had undertakenn, bob biscuit undertaken an examination of the circumstances and the death and vincent foster was a very successful lawyer, law partner of the rose law firm of hillary and webb hubbell and the three of them were very close and i'm pleased to say that there was no suggestion that vince foster was somehow involved in the fraudulent transactions involving madison guaranty but within seven months coming to washington dc this very successful, prominent lawyer loose from all appearances happily married with a family took his own life and so bob concluded that it was a suicide and there were so many conspiracy theories so i decided we need to take a second look to make sure that we've done absolutely everything to examine the questions that were being raised because their work questions that were founded but were suggestions that vince foster, in fact, was the victim of a homicide and that his body had been moved to the park so let's call it conspiratorial theories so yes, we took a very clever look at that and did higher experts of some of the leading experts in the c
>> bob had undertakenn, bob biscuit undertaken an examination of the circumstances and the death and vincent foster was a very successful lawyer, law partner of the rose law firm of hillary and webb hubbell and the three of them were very close and i'm pleased to say that there was no suggestion that vince foster was somehow involved in the fraudulent transactions involving madison guaranty but within seven months coming to washington dc this very successful, prominent lawyer loose from...
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he became the the most trusted colleague of bob's and succeeded bob in senator jodi leader. senator daschle's accomplished career in congress spanned more than two and a half decades. in that time he was elected as the leader of the democratic party in the senate. through his legislative achievements including compensation for disabled veterans, senator daschle found common ground with bob that not only solidified their relationship as colleagues but as friends. together they went on to establish the bipartisan policy center later joined by senator lott to continue promoting the ideals of cooperation and civility. i am deeply grateful to the senators for their friendship and outstanding public service over these many decades. i thank them for taking part in this special night. with my warmest wishes, elizabeth dole. it is my pleasure to present senator tom daschle and senator trent lott. please give them a warm jayhawk welcome. [applause] >> thank you so much for being with us this evening. it has been so fun getting to spend time with you these last couple of days. >> great
he became the the most trusted colleague of bob's and succeeded bob in senator jodi leader. senator daschle's accomplished career in congress spanned more than two and a half decades. in that time he was elected as the leader of the democratic party in the senate. through his legislative achievements including compensation for disabled veterans, senator daschle found common ground with bob that not only solidified their relationship as colleagues but as friends. together they went on to...
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there's bob mcnamara traveling with mrs. braden in their friendship, and there's no divorce in the braden household. they still live together and she professes to be in love with both of them, so this is apparently a solution to bob mcnamara's need for companionship. c-span: you write in your epilogue on page 606, "most of the lessons drawn from mcnamara's life have been negative: the management by numbers ruined america's manufacturing know-how, that the banks' lending left poorest countries with crippling debt, that the deceits and subterfuges of vietnam disillusioned a generation with government." you want to amplify on that, and is it all negative? >> guest: i think the book shows how much of it is positive. and i think the next sentence goes on to discuss that there are much positive there. c-span: well, the next sentence says "david halberstam had called mcnamara a dangerous figure..." >> guest: oh, ok. well, then it goes on, yeah. c-span: "...because his special skill to fool people, to seem better than his official a
there's bob mcnamara traveling with mrs. braden in their friendship, and there's no divorce in the braden household. they still live together and she professes to be in love with both of them, so this is apparently a solution to bob mcnamara's need for companionship. c-span: you write in your epilogue on page 606, "most of the lessons drawn from mcnamara's life have been negative: the management by numbers ruined america's manufacturing know-how, that the banks' lending left poorest...